Singing is What Helps Me Breathe



Singing Is What Helps Me Breathe ©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
Dec. 4, 2021

Singing is what helps me breathe
My life saving Albuterol
Not saying it’s good, mediocre or bad
Just saying it feeds my soul
It may drive others up a wall
Drive the steadfast sober to drink
Some critics might melt at my dulcet tones
And others might say it sure does stink
But I never sing to pleasure the throngs
Nor quell the angry mob
I sing to breathe and soothe my soul
Each note completes its job
So when holiday carols serenade with glee
From out my mouth so wide
Please try to understand my need
And take it all in stride
For singing is what helps me breathe
Keeps cardiologists at bay
It feeds my very heart and soul
To see a brand new day

About this poem

We all find our therapy from different sources-such as singing.

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Written on December 14, 2021

Submitted by shulman.gary on December 05, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme Axx Abxcbdxdxecexfxfagcg
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 723
Words 143
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 20

Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.

Gary Shulman, MS. Ed. has spent a lifetime supporting vulnerable families and children. He began his career working with children with and without disabilities in an inclusive Head Start program in Brooklyn NY. He then transitioned to become the Special Needs and Early Childhood Coordinator for the Brooklyn Children's Museum for 10 years. His passion for advocacy grew as he worked more and more with parents of children with disabilities. For over 24 years he passionately advocated for the needs of these parents as the Social Services and Training Director for Resources for Children with Special Needs, Inc. in NYC. The last 8 years of his working life, Mr. Shulman served as a private Special Needs Consultant conducting hundreds of training sessions throughout NYC and beyond to help parents and professionals find and access the services and systems required to facilitate maximizing the potential of their children with disabilities. Now Mr. Shulman is happily retired in Palm Springs CA, but still volunteers his time any way he can to provide information to those in need of his expertise. Today, Gary enjoys sharing his poetry that he passionately writes with the goal of leaving this world a better place one word at a time. more…

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